Harmony’s shares have also been weighed down by a death at one of its mines. Dow Jones Newswires reports:

Harmony Gold Mining Co. Ltd. said Tuesday that one employee was killed and another seriously injured in a materials handling accident that occurred at its Kusasalethu mine near Carletonville this morning.

JPMorgan’s JohnBridges, meanwhile, surveys second quarter earnings:

Impairments, cost reductions, capex deferrals, and dividend cuts—the Q2 results had them all. However, most of these measures had been well telegraphed or made sense. Consequently, the stocks traded less on quarterly results but more on the measures companies took to preserve liquidity and focus on cash flows. A modest gold price recovery to $1,300+ from the $1,200/oz lows also helped bring some confidence back, with the HUI index outperforming gold by 2%…

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Emerging markets have been synonymous with growth, but the outlook for individual nations is constantly changing. Countries from Brazil and Russia to Turkey face challenges including infrastructure bottlenecks, credit issues and political shifts. Barrons.com’s Emerging Markets Daily blog analyzes news, data and research out of emerging markets beyond Asia to help readers navigate the investment landscape.

Barron’s veteran Dimitra DeFotis has been blogging about emerging market investing since traveling to India and Turkey. Based in New York, she previously wrote for Barron’s about U.S. equity investing, including cover stories and roundtables on energy themes. Dimitra was among the first digital journalists at the Chicago Tribune and started her career as a police reporter at the Daily Herald in the Chicago suburbs. Dimitra holds degrees from the University of Illinois and Columbia University, where she was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in the business and journalism schools. She studies multiple languages and photography.